A trifecta of inconceivable foolhardiness
Drinking AND trespassing ON railway property AT 3 o'clock in the morning... more like community of dumbasses...
"Police would not release the name of the youths, but they were known in Montreal’s tight-knit community of graffiti artists." --Yeah, I know I'm dating myself here... but I remember when this sort of thing was called vandalism...
Charles F. Seaton, a spokesman for New York City Transit, described such incursions as “trespassing, punishable by law,” and said “anyone caught defacing M.T.A. property is subject to arrest and fine.”Or apparently, being turned into applesauce.
“If you go in there and break your neck, nobody’s going to hear you scream,” he said — at least assuming there are no track workers around. “You’re just going to have to hope that someone is going to find you before you die.”**********
FROM THE COMMENTS:
"If only we had a passenger train registry."
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Clearly, this tragedy could have been prevented. If only we had a passenger train registry.
Pretty sure they were all guys. One of the reasons there are so many more women around in old age. Though with both sexes watching the Jackass movies, this could change.
The headline reads VIA train kills two.
Sorry the VIA train did not kill two. Stupidity killed two.
I feel sorry for the parents but the blame is not to be put onto VIA. It should be put where it belongs, on the boys who were where they had no right to be.
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not to absolve the all-too-apparent dumbassery of the "community of graffiti artists"... but, if it's 3 o'clock in the morning... and you don't know where your teenage kids are... well, enough said.
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